People with low awareness feel they have lack of things and the only way is to take from another. They are not aware they can create value and create in abundance.
So same rules, old game. That is correct. But let's think for a second from different level.
If we try to see bigger picture, evolution of our planet and humans on it depends on all of us, therefore, it is very slow process. All of us are affecting it. Few centuries cannot reflect real picture. The same way, as example, our solar system needs 25 000 years to orbit once around central Sun (black hole). When time is so long, it is very hard to realise how human collective consciousness (how Carl Jung called it) is evolving. From our perspective, very slow, but from some other perspective, from some higher dimension, maybe it is just a moment. :)
Namaste.